WORLD PEACE
"If you want peace and harmony in the world,
you must have peace and
harmony in your hearts and minds."
~ Sri Nisargadatta Majaraj
extract from Chapter 48
from the book
“I am That” of Sri Nisargadatta Majaraj
Questioner: Are you not at all
concerned about the state of the world? Look at the horrors in East Pakistan
[1971, now Bangla Desh]. Do they not touch you at all?
Nisargadatta Maharaj: I am reading newspapers, I know what is going on! But my reaction is not like yours. You are looking for a cure, while I am concerned with prevention.
As long as there are
causes, there must also be results. As long as people are bent on dividing and
separating, as long as they are selfish and aggressive, such things will
happen.
If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed; it must come from within. Those who abhor war must get war out of their system.
If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed; it must come from within. Those who abhor war must get war out of their system.
Without
peaceful people how can you have peace in the world? As long as people are as
they are, the world must be as it is.
I am doing my part in trying to help
people to know themselves as the only cause of their own misery. In that sense
I am a useful man. But what I am in myself, what is my normal state cannot be
expressed in terms of social consciousness and usefulness.
THE WORLD CAN CHANGE ONLY FROM WITHIN ~ Eckhart Tolle
Be the change by J. Krishnamurti